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A collection of primitive stone implements, with chisel and. 

 bevelled edges, and two moulds of similar stone, one being 

 for the manufacture of metal finger-rirsgs ; from Negri 

 Sembilan, near Malacca, in the Malay Peninsula. 



Two pottery vases, one of red ware with painted herring- 

 bone design in yellow, from Kamoula, near Thebes, the 

 other glazed black, from Naqada, Upper Egypt; given by 

 Percy E. Newberry, Esq. 



Four finely chipped implements and an armlet, all of chert, 

 from Hau (Diospolis Parva). Upper Egypt ; given by the 

 Egypt Exploration Fund. 



Specimens of primitive vessels of soapstone, unfinished 

 bowls of the same material turned on the lathe and broken, 

 with the chucks or portions cut out by the wheel, illustrating 

 the process of manufacture ; found chiefly on the Rifi'elalp, 

 Zermatt, Switzerland. 



(2.) Anglo-Roman: — 



A remarkable tessellated floor of the Roman period, 

 discovered in a field at Thruxton, Hants, in the year 1823, 

 and published in the Salisbury volume of the Archaeological 

 Institute, 1849. About two-thirds of the original square is 

 preserved, with elaborate designs in several colours, but 

 the special feature is the inscription along the top of the 

 pavement, which reads 



QVINTVS r^ATALSVS MATALSNVS ET BODENl 

 the continuation at the foot having been destroyed. This 

 is the only known instance in Britain of a Roman floor 

 with such an inscription, and is therefore an important 

 monument of the Roman dominion ; given by the Committee 

 of St. John's Hospital, Winchester. 



A massive sepulchral slab of stone, wrth inscribed panel to 

 the memory of Lucius Sempronius Flavinius, a soldier of the 

 Ninth Legion, who died at the age of 30, after seven years 

 of military service. This monument has been published in 

 Govp. Inscr. Lat., p. 52, No. 184, also in the Archaeological 

 Journal, Vol. XVII. ; and was found, in 1830, opposite the 

 City Gaol, Lincoln. 



An ivory statuette of exceptional interest, representing a 

 Roman gladiator in armour, with sword and shield, on the 

 latter being a scene from a gladiatorial combat ; found at 

 Lexden, Colchester, in 1884, and given by Pelham R. 

 Papillon, Esq. 



A selection of objects from the collection of the late 

 Rev, S. M. Mayhew, f.s.a., including a figure of a cock in 

 bronze, the surface with champleve enamel in pale green 

 and white, and traces of red on the comb ; found close to 

 the Royal Exchange, London, and figured and described in 

 the Journal of the British Archseological Association, 

 Vol. XLI. Bracelets of glass and jet, glass beads, and a 

 gold ring, found in various parts of the City of London. 



